Techniques for text classification in biomedical domain

Alessandro Maffi is a master student at Brescia University. He does his master thesis within a project about text classification in biomedical domain. The project is a collaboration between the University of Brescia, the HLT-NLP group at FBK and the radiology department of "ASST Ospedali Civili di Brescia".He will present the work he has done in the project which include: supervision of the manual annotation of radiology reports done by two radiologists, and implementation of a text classification system based on Machine Learning techniques.